Why is that?. I didnt understand well what they do. Would like to know more about it.

they are better than lvl 20 gems at level 1

So even more powercreep?

looks like a league that might actually take skill since you have to avoid boss hits. Can also be a random getting 1 shot league.

Looks like more bullshit powercreeping though.

This post was edited by Dmitriy on Nov 16 2019 02:19pm

yes it seems that way

everyone seems to talk bad about power creep but GGG's numbers keep going up so even if they think it's bad themselves as game creators, the numbers tell them its not I guess, right?

In my humble opinion

Any game has a TTL and... A power creep, which is a natural process. Big part of the deal is to not head-shot the game with a delirious power creep but something very well integrated and progressive.

Blight scored really bad (steamcharts) for multiple reasons; one being players are simply starting to get really bored (along with performances issues, BL3, students season....)
Having POE 2 released in a year is pretty much mandatory for GGG survavibility

This post was edited by Saucisson6000 on Nov 20 2019 09:08am

whats TTL?

Meta gems only drop from the new Conquerors of the Atlas bosses (the former Exiles Zana sealed away), which might be a pretty hard and rare fight and / or a rare drop.

Seeing how you probably need to be well in endgame already before you even find a meta gem it's not that big a deal imho.

Also GGG stated they would start cranking up the difficulty of PoE, starting with the CotA Expansion as a ramp up to 4.0, meaning more health and other things, so I would suggest to wait and see before complaining.

Concerning Blights "semi success" I don't think that says much, because Legion was a huge success and people get burned out and skip the next league.

On top of that mines and summoning are niche builds pushed as the meta, which further encouraged some people to skip the league.

And of course it was a TD league which also did not help, even though I think the map encounters had nothing to do with TD (just burst everything as it spawns and collect your rewards) and the maps turned out quite nice, but were totally optional (it's not like the league was not rewarding enough if you just quick farmed the map encounters and sold the blight maps).

Plus you compete with BL3 & WoWC, both grind heavy games with a similar target audience.

Metamorph sounds ok as a league, but I think it will hardly matter because CotA is a core expansion and the endgame revamp is huge.

New Endgame bosses with rewards that are totally worth it (meta gems, new exalt orbs) both to sell them to people who cannot farm them and for self use, after years of complaints that bossing is not worth the effort.
New crafting.
All maps can now be t14-t16 at the same time which is huge for endgame variety.
And the bow / wander meta, which people have been waiting for, forever.

As I said if you can get parts to craft endgame bosses, guardians, unique map bosses, or even the exile bosses this league will be great.

Every league has been a bow league up to this point people are daft to want another one. I might try the new totems though.

Honestly bow skills are the one skill group in this game that didnt need a revamp. But what chris said about tornado shot cracked me up.